A Robust Alternative to the Normal Distribution.

Abstract

A wider tailed family of distributions is suggested as an alternative to the normal distribution having many of the desirable properties of the normal family. One advantage of this alternative is the greater robustness of maximum likelihood estimates. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 07, 1982
Accession Number
ADA119378

Entities

People

  • D. L. Mcleish

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bessel Functions
  • Data Science
  • Difference Equations
  • Differential Equations
  • Distribution Functions
  • Equations
  • Estimators
  • Gaussian Processes
  • Information Science
  • Maximum Likelihood Estimation
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Normal Distribution
  • Observation
  • Random Variables
  • Sequences
  • Simulations
  • Statistics

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Regression Analysis.